Covers a little rubbed and browned, sticker remnant to front cover. Internally clean. A good-plus paperback.
From the collection of well-known big game and saltwater angler Jack Reece, with his angling bookplate tipped in.
(1962) 1967 Columbia paperback edition. Small 8vo paperback (132 x 203mm). Pp118 + 24pp plates. B/w photograph plates and illustrations. 16s. 0d.
Pictures show the actual copy being offered for sale.
"This is a highly readable guide to the principal fish families of the world. ...It is aimed at the general reader rather than at the ichthyologist, and offers a great many picturesque facts about fish, large and small. Professor Lanham bears his learning so gracefully that I wish the book had been twice as long as it is. Here the reader will come on such gee-whizz facts as that fish are not, as commonly supposed, color-blind. ...Did you know, too, that the archer fish, found in the Orient, can knock its insect prey off streamside by firing a drop of water from its mouth at lightning speed? The book is illustrated with an extensive album of photographs." (Saturday Review).
Contents include:- The origin of fishes; Fishes without jaws; Sharks and their ancestors; Fishes with lungs; Structures concerned with swimming; Teeth and jaws; Breathing; Reproduction; The senses; More living fossils; Trouts and their relatives; Fresh-water specialists; Fishes of the sea; Summary; Index.